Vicuña: The World's Most Expensive Wool Comes From a Llama
Anonymous
May 11, 2022
Deep within the Andes of Peru gallops an animal that’s treasured across the world. It belongs to the family of Llamas but is called a Vicuña...
A Thunderstorm Called Hector
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2022
Nearly every afternoon, from September to March, a thunderstorm develops over the Tiwi Islands in Northern Australia. It happens so regularl...
Bera, The Indian Village Where Man and Leopards Live Together
Anonymous
May 10, 2022
Along the sun-soaked Aravallis of Rajasthan thrives the leopard country of India. In and around Bera, a small village in Pali district, maje...
Did Abbas Ibn Firnas Make History’s First Flight?
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2022
Just outside Baghdad International Airport there is a statue of a man wearing a turban with feathered wings strapped over his arms, about to...
1875: When Locusts Ruled Over America
Anonymous
May 9, 2022
A species disappears from our planet about every 30 minutes. From climate crises to man’s carelessness, there are endless factors that drive...
Franz Halder: The Only German to be Decorated by Both Hitler and Kennedy
Anonymous
May 6, 2022
During the Third Riech, Hitler fortified his leadership atop bastions of war, invasion and politics. One of them though dared to traipse acr...
The Peculiar Locks of Dindigul
Anonymous
May 5, 2022
In India’s Tamil Nadu, some 420km south of Chennai, sits Dindigul. In this city of over two million people, families have slept without a wo...
The Neanderthals of Gorham’s Cave
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2022
Long before modern humans walked the earth, there lived in Europe another species off humans—the Neanderthals. It’s unclear exactly when Nea...
America’s Ugly ‘Ugly Laws’
Anonymous
May 4, 2022
In the 1880s, you could be fined for being ugly in public. Ordinances across the United States disallowed anyone who was “diseased, maimed, ...
Why The Soviet Union Advertised Products That Didn’t Exist
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2022
The purpose of commercials is to advertise products and drive sales, but in Soviet Russia under communism they served an altogether differen...
